The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has set up cordons two blocks away from Columbia University, where students opposing Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip have barricaded themselves in.
Media reported late Tuesday that the police have already entered the territory of the university. Meanwhile, the police set up a cordon at the intersection of Broadway and 113th Street a couple of blocks from the university and are preventing young people from reaching their friends at the university, the correspondent reported on Tuesday. Police officers wearing helmets and armed with batons and plastic zip-tie handcuffs were deployed to the area and set up an iron barricade, the correspondent reported, adding that there have been no clashes so far.People who gathered around the fence were shouting “Viva viva Palestina.
